Thill-support.



No. 882,650. PATENTED MAR. 24, 1908. A. W. PERRY.

THILL SUPPORT. APPLICATION FILED SEPT. s. 1907.

W1 HVESSES W A Mme/v5 Y5 numeral 1, the front end by 2 while above it'plate 11 bolted in the approximate center of UNITED sT 'rEs PATENTOFFICE.

AMOS Wv PERRY, OF WAKEFIELD, RHODE ISLAN l), ASSIGNOR O I" ONE-HA 1.1 T0.IA ES DAVIS,

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THILP-SUPPORT Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented March 24, 1908.

Application filed September 3, 1907. Serial No. 391,171.

T 0 all whom it may concern:

- Be it known that I, AMOS W. PERRY, a citizen of the United States,residing at WVakefield, in the county of l/Vashington and State of RhodeIsland, have invented a new and useful Thill-Support, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention relates to a device for supporting the thills or shaftsof a vehicle in elevated position above the ground when not in use, theobject being to provide a novel hanger or fastener for the thills, onepart of which is attached to the front of a vehicle body and the otherpart to the cross bar connecting the thills on which the whiffletree ispivoted.

The thill support of the present invention is simple, cheap, easilyapplied to a vehicle and from its position at the approximate center ofthe thill cross bar, each thill receives the same support and there isno straining or twisting of the thills such as is common when but onethill is supported.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a longitudinal sectional Viewthrough the front end of a vehicle with the improved thill supportattached. Fig. 2 is a View in elevation of the front of a vehicle bodyshowing the fixed part of the support attached thereto. Fig. 3 is anenlarged view showing in rear elevation the cross bar between the thillsto which the whiffletree is attached, illustrating movable part of thethill support. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the parts illustrated in thepreceding figure and on the same scale.

Similar reference numerals are used to point out the same parts on allthe figures.

The body of the vehicle is indicated by the is the dash 3. The runninggear denoted by 4 has attached to its front axle 5 a pair of thillcouplings 6 in which are ivoted the thills 7 connected by their cross ar8 carrying the pivoted whiflletree 9. All the above mentioned arts arecommon to horse drawn vehicles and need no further description.

Fastened to the front 2 of the vehicle body is a horizontally disposedhook 1O projecting forwardly at a right angle from a vertical the frontof the body 1. Between the hook plate 11 and the body front 2 is secureda guide plate 12, the lower portion of which is similar in size andshape to the plate 11 but is expanded laterally at its upper end andshaped to curve over the hook 10, as clearly represented in Fig. 1. Thehook plate 1] and the guide plate 1.2 are fastened to the vehicle 1 bymeans of bolts passing through the two plates, the body front and a rearplate 13 on the inside of the vehicle against which the securing nutsbear.

Bolted at each end to the rear side of the thill cross bar 8 is a flatplate 1 1 in the 'center of which a slightly curved link 15 is pivotally secured by a rivet or bolt 16, the free end of said link havingtherein a longitudinal slot 17. The plate 14 is attached to the crossbar 8 in such position that the link 15 will, when it is swingingupwardly and the thills raised, engage the hook 1.0 on the vehicle body.

\Vhen the link 15 is not in use, it is turned parallel with the plate 14and being made of spring metal, it will retain its folded positionbecause it is under spring tension.

hen the thills are to be held up, the spring link 15 is turned to theposition indicated in Fig. 1, and in dotted lines in Fig. 3. The thillsare then raised until the end of the link 15, striking the shield 12, isforced downwardly until the slot 17 therein passes over the hook 10. Ifnew, the link be held down for a moment and the thills lowered slightlythe link will be retracted and hook 10 engage the slot 17, holding thethills elevated.

lower the thills it is only necessary to raise forwardly in thedirection of its length, and

a resilient longitudinally slotted supporting link pivotally connectedto the cross bar and disposed to engage the hook to support ,the thills,said link being shiftable into position upon the rear face of the crossbar.

2. The combination with a vehicle, and thills connected thereto andhaving a cross bar; of lapping plates secured upon the front of thevehicle, a supporting hook integral with and extending forward from oneof the being shiftable into position above the bar 10 plates, aforwardly and upwardly curved to engage the hook.

guide extending from the other plate and In testimony that I claim theforegoing as overhanging the hook, a plate secured upon my own, I havehereto afiixed my signature the rear face of the cross bar and extendinthe presence of two Witnesses.

ing longitudinally thereof, a longitudinally AMOS W. PERRY. slotted linkpivotally mounted upon said plate and normally parallel therewith anddisposed entirely in rear of the bar, said link I Witnesses:

JAMES T. NOLAN, WILLIAM H. LILLY.

